Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
John Thomas BarberFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Richard BestFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
John BastinFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
John MarshallFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow